Womanist

Rants from a Jamaican British Woman

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Give it up Hilary. Barack can't do any worse than all the White President's who has been in power. Your husband has already done it. What is American politics becoming! Do you have to be related these days to be president of the USA? Frankly, let the Black man have it. He's worked hard for it. It will make a change. Black people in America deserve to see themselves represented. Think about the jobs for the boys when he starts messing up. A Black President, we told you he would mess up! What would you expect of a Black man?? Imagine when they find out that he smoke, but didn't inhale!! Imagine how much copy they'll get out of the Black President who slept with his intern or with anybody else for that matter, even his wife. They could talk about the sexual propensity of Black men forever then. And god help him if anyone in his administrator is found to have nicked the odd paper clip. Yo! Yo! You know you neva could trust them blacks...Of course the above scenarious are only possible if the secret service behave themselves and don't do him what they've always done to aspirational Blacks, or Blacks who dare talk politics. Good luck Barack, me I am rooting for ya..At best you can definitely do better than the pricks they've been putting in charge. Crass cinicism apart, I truly believe Barack Obama has a good attitude to politics and with the right support, he could go onto be the greatest president America has ever seen. American's need to be united as a people. They need to show more care and empathy for their fellow Americans and fellow human beings. They need to take more care in using and managing the worlds resources. They need to get rid of their warmongering status. They need to apologise to the world for their extraordinarily unfair and often riddiculous behaviours. Barack might be the first to offer Americans a way out of the perverse rut that they have allowed the likes of Bush and Bush to dig them into.

.: posted by womanist 11:09 AM

Boy, it's hard living one's life by passwords. I don't seem to be able to remember mine for more than a few seconds at a time.

.: posted by womanist 11:08 AM

The BBC is arrogant beyond belief. To try to convince the fee paying public that it is right to pay the likes of Johnathan Ross some 18 million pounds a year to trip over his tongue talking crap to a lot of hasbeens celebrities beggars belief. For the last 10 years, the BBC has churned out little more than rubbish which panders to people who live their lives vicariously. The fee charged is an insult to us the general public. Frankly the BBC should be paying us to even bother to switch on the box where we are guaranteed to be bombarded with endless reality rubbish, endless repeats of rubbish, repetitive news bulletins, endless parades of riddiculous people telling us the sun ain't going to shine tomorrow. I mean how many people do the BBC need to read from a screen tomorrow's weather condition. We have windows, we can look out of them and tell whether it's going to rain or shine. Johnathan isn't worth £50,000 never mind the vulgar sum of 18 million. Terry Wogan isn't worse the vast sums he's being paid either. Perhaps he could use a tiny proportion of his vulgar income to get himself a decent toupee. I would rather the BBC do something useful with my money such as give it to the people around the globe that it exploits to make some of its riddiculous programmes. If they put the licence fee up another penny I for one will chuck the little set I bother to have in the bin.

.: posted by womanist 10:50 AM

Out of the Mouths of 'babes'

So my two-year-old grand daughter complimented me recently. As I admired myself in my new pair of white jeans, she piped up. "You know nanny that's so pretty. You look so cute in that". Needless to say I have squashed my ample frame into the said white jeans wearing them at every possiblity. No more compliments since the grand daughter's though. She's coming at the weekend and I'll be fishing for compliments.

.: posted by womanist 10:46 AM

Brown! Brown! Brown! Isn't there a very British saying. 'Don't ask for something, you might get your wish' and so Brown got his wish to be PM and poor devil (smile) First he got foot and mouth, then Noah send him a bit of floodng, then Bush sent the credit crunch, and the young people or Britain started drinking more, smoking more evil stuff and then upping their fantastic disregard for each other's lives by shooting and stabbing each other at every opportunity, then we got Boris as Mayor and now we know for sure that the Tories are on their way back, and Gordon responded by taxing the poor in every manner possible, and now he's doing a Blair by getting tough on terror. Here's a little bit of advice Mr Brown, if you don't want to end up in the guiness book of records for being one of Britain's shortest lived and most incompetent PM, I suggest you find a little poor arse country to invade, get the media and people on your side by ensuring that we're convinced that there is exeptionally good reason for invasion. How about invading like .....St Kitts! They must have nuclear weapon! Oh but do they have any oil? Oh just invade South America, they're poor and they have lots of oil and other natural resources that we need. Look I want to be able to drive my car again and by the looks of things, I won't be able to unless you invade a country that has lots of oil and make the bastards hand it over for nothing, so that we can get cheap gas. Such an action will save your arse. Believe me.

.: posted by womanist 10:33 AM

Well! Got that out of my system. I am just so fedup with the hypocracy of the West. The truth is everyone is screwing Africa. Any idiot knows that if you want to become, remain, or relaunch your country as a superpower, Africa is where its at. Africa has all the resources that spell out the word P O W E R. The magnificent continent has diamonds; gold, silver, copper; aluminuim, and a mountain of other natural resources. It has sun. It has everything to meet the vorocious appettite of the Western World, China and India. All of whom know full well how to give a little and take and take and take a lot. And it's so easy to take and give a little, because most Africans are so cut off from any possibility of reaching their potential as human beings, that frankly having enough to buy some fufu and banku seems to be all that many asked. Whilst there are now enough Africans living in the West who could probably return to their respective lands and make a difference, all their countries are being so summarily destroyed and undermined, they fear there is nothing to return to, so they stay and moan about their compromised existence.

.: posted by womanist 10:22 AM

I haven't blogged forever!! I guess this is because I'm in love and so obsessed with my new husband that I can't be bothered to worry about the world anymore. Ok call me selfish. Having said that I am at home with toothache today and have been staring at the telivision inbetween winces of pain, periods of wakefullness and trying to work out what the anti-biotics are doing to my body. So who did I see on it? Robert Mugabe of course giving a very eloquent speech in Rome. Now all my liberal friends are going to hate me for saying this, but a lot of what the man says makes sense. In fact all of what he said made sense. It may sound like he's trying to absent himself from any responsibilty for what is going on in Zimbabwe. Now in truth, what do we really know about Mugabe or his antics in recent years? We really only know what we are told by the British media, not known for it's fear appraisal of anything African or indeed of African politics and politicians. The stuff that comes at us about how Mugabe is starving his people does sound very concerning and credible, but then it's the same media that told us how much things in South Africa has changed for Blacks since the end of apartheid. Well I've been to South Africa and from what I can see, little has changed for the vast majority of Black people. South Africa is still divided into two distinctly different countries, one that houses wealthy Whites, and Black politicians prepared to accept the status quo as long as they get to live comfortable lives, and the other South Africa is one that is poverty stricken, aids ridden; people, Black people in the main living in 'shit' and dying like ants. Now I really don't know what Mugabe is up to, but I do understand that he is one of the few African leaders who has dared to stand up to its former colonisers. I also have no doubt that Britain has done all in its power to undermine Mugabe's rule and to de-stabilise Zimbabwe's economy. Britain's behaviour to its former colonies is no surprise, particularly where the people show interest in asserting their independence. Britain is still entrenched in appalling behaviours abroad. The West in general are the biggest contributors to Africa's continued dilemmas. It's because of our ultimate greed in the Western world that many African's are starving. Truth is, the West has little interest in the welfare of African people's. Africa still has resources to be exploited and if that means undermining its rulers or at least the ones that disagree or challenge the West approach, then that is what the West will do. We are always so willing to believe whatever we read in the media about Black rulers. Whilst White rulers seem able to get away with 'mass murder' literally. Mugabe is a very clever man, and this is not being said disparagingly. I believe his supherb intellect really 'pisses' the West off. Truth is the West does not want independent African States unless such a state is headed up by a White Government. Other African States are terrified of upsetting the Western world for fear of draconian economic sanctions being wreaked upon them. The West want Africa to be 'aided'. The West fears African's independence. Too many people; too much power to be conferred on one continent, so African Leaders however, amazing will always be piliorised, unless of course they are a 'Mandela' a man I think of massive integrity, who perhaps still believe the world is full of innately good people, likely to respond to reason and gentle compromise. It is more than easy to say Mugabe is 'mad'. It's a bit like the the violent husband who justifies hitting his wife by telling the judge that she nagged him. I hear that Mugabe is yet another leader that lives a lavish lifestyle whilst his people struggle. I don't doubt that story for a moment. Whilst in no way justifiable in my book, funding lavish lifestyles seem to be an occupational hazzard for world leaders. How many houses has Mr Blair bought and at what price whilst prime minister. British MP's don't pay bills. We pay for their incredible lifestyles through more and more of our income being taxed. In the meantime we the general public are experiencing more and more difficulties trying to keep up with basic living standards. Its strikes me that people who become leaders are on the whole egotistical, into self-aggrandisement etc. etc. I don't suppose Black Leaders on the whole are very different. Very few seems to go after the job for altrustic reasons. Many know from the beginning that they will become powerful men and women, able to continue living lifestyles, that most of the people they're suppose to be serving could not even dream of. I dare say that on the question of savile row suits, fabulous houses, cars, planes, boats, golfing when you should be working, Mugabe probably fit in very well.